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Poem

Mustafa Köz

STONE WRITING

Every word will become a stone eventually
pencil stone, stamp stone, plough stone, homeland stone

Once I’ve written about a soldier returned from war with a rose
soldier stone, writing stone, rose stone, roseland stone

As the lightning’s frost melts, the tongue of light
lightning stone, light stone, tongueland stone.

Every word will become a stone eventually
either poets and mourners or a churn scrubbed with ashes.

TAŞ YAZI

TAŞ YAZI

Her sözcük taşa dönecek bir gün
kalem taş, sıla taş, pul taş, pulluk taş

yazdımdı bir savaştan gülle dönen askeri
asker taş, yazı taş, gül taş, güllük taş

erirken şimşeğin buzu, ışığın dili
şimşek taş, ışık taş, dillik taş.

Her sözcük taşa dönecek bir gün
ya yırcılar ağıtçılar ya külle ovulan güğüm.
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STONE WRITING

Every word will become a stone eventually
pencil stone, stamp stone, plough stone, homeland stone

Once I’ve written about a soldier returned from war with a rose
soldier stone, writing stone, rose stone, roseland stone

As the lightning’s frost melts, the tongue of light
lightning stone, light stone, tongueland stone.

Every word will become a stone eventually
either poets and mourners or a churn scrubbed with ashes.

STONE WRITING

Every word will become a stone eventually
pencil stone, stamp stone, plough stone, homeland stone

Once I’ve written about a soldier returned from war with a rose
soldier stone, writing stone, rose stone, roseland stone

As the lightning’s frost melts, the tongue of light
lightning stone, light stone, tongueland stone.

Every word will become a stone eventually
either poets and mourners or a churn scrubbed with ashes.
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